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Solution
As a member of BSR, VEIC played a key role in leading the effort to secure funding to develop a Vermont residential green building program, worked with BSR to pilot and implement the program in Vermont, and represented the program on committees working to create national standards for green building.
Results
The development of the Vermont Builds Greener (VBG) Scorecard resulted in the nation's most comprehensive and respected residential green building rating system. In partnership with BSR, VEIC piloted implementation of the Scorecard in Vermont homes and in a University of Vermont student housing project. The Cape Light Compact, a consortium of Massachusetts municipal utilities, adopted the Scorecard as the basis for its new construction program. The National Audubon Society chose to use the Scorecard and VBG certification for all of its new nature centers smaller than 8,000 square feet. And continual interest in VBG from Northeast states indicates an expanding role for the VBG Scorecard in our bioregion.
Testimonials
Vermont Builds Greener Pushes the Envelope: ...the nation's most comprehensive--greenest--residential green building program yet.
Environmental Building News, July 2003.
[VBG] is best in class from what we can see.
Duncan Prahl, IBACOS Building America Consortium, February, 2003.
References
Chuck Reiss
Vermont Builds Greener Committee Chair
Reiss Building and Renovation
756 Buck Hill Road
Hinesburg, VT 05461
802-482-3295
vbrreiss@gmavt.net
Alex Wilson
Environmental Building News
122 Birge Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
802-257-7300
alex@buildinggreen.com
Steve Loken
National Audubon Society
c/o Loken Builders
PO Box 9317
Missoula, MT 59807
406-543-1931
sloken@lokenbuilders.com
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